Week 6: Survival Analysis and Beyond

Weekly Objectives

• Right-censored survival outcomes
• Survival function and hazard function
• Log-rank test for two groups of samples
• Cox proportional hazard model
• Interpreting parameters in a Cox-PH model
• Machine learning vs. Statistics
• Some popular machine learning models

Lecture Note

• [Survival Analysis]
• The original .Rmd [Source File] used to generate the lecture note

Homework

• Reading: Finish Sections 8.1 and 8.2 from the BPS textbook
• Finish the practice questions in the lecture note